Music Theory - Harmonizing the Major Scale

This video lesson will cover how musicians with little to no experience with music theory can begin study and practice of harmonizing the major scale into triads and begin understanding the process of harmonic analysis.

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[arizandyh]

um... you should probably use lower case fir minor triads like it should be. scale degree 2,3,6 and dim 7 should be ii, iii, vi and vii˚

[creativeguitarstudio]

@arizandyh ...

The lowercase minor's are only used in Classical Theory. I do not use Classical theory. You need to learn more about Jazz & Contemporary Harmony & Theory to more completely understand my approach.

[pikotsky0906]

Can you show me the minor sequence too? lets stick to the key C, this time Cm.. thanks!!!

[chrisgsauce]

Terrific lesson and well explained. Perfect for the beginner theory student such as myself :D

[Nato955]

This is extremely helpful, thank you.

[hembrow]

Great video :)

[Dynamik5]

@zliminator If you take the time though and get to know every scale in rote. And you learn "formulas" for how triads are built. Then you'll be surprised how open the whole guitar becomes to you, especially if you combine this with memorizing the fretboard in it's entirety. Learning scale patterns and triad shapes = a huge leap in ability..Plus once you have this foundation laid, everything is much easier to understand.

[nymetsrock]

@PaydayLoanHelp oh man, reading notes is so much easier to learn than this, if you can do this you can learn to read notes like a pro in no time

[mohosfasho]

@creativeguitarstudio 4:00 haha whyd they ask..

[MrSketchSkater]

@christianfff

[PaydayLoanHelp]

Music theory is the best. I can't read notes that well, but with the music theory I know I can just make up a lot of it.

[operaboi1992]

@zliminator It would be more practical to memorize the circle of 5ths progression for 14 major and 14 minor keys rather than simply memorizing I, IV, and V of 14 major and 14 minor keys. The circle of 5ths progression gives you more context for those chords in addition to the fact that practicing circle of 5ths progressions will help you learn ii, iii (III+), vi (VI), and dim viii.

[zliminator]

I drive a truck for a living and I'm trying to memorize the circle of 5ths while I'm at work. I thought it would be a good way to know the I-IV-V progression in any key. Now I see from your video that you could also use the circle of 5ths to determine the minors (II III & VI) and the aug because they are always in the same relative position from the root. How practical would it be to know the circle of 5ths that well as opposed to memorizing each chord progression for each key by just pure rote?